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Answer: quite a lot. When you fly as high as Gates & Co. did during the 1990s, growing an average 36% annually, maintaining that altitude is nearly impossible. So Microsoft's growth rate is now no larger than that of the PC industry as a whole. Its stock price has stalled at 1998 levels. A new version of its flagship Windows product, once expected as early as 2003, may ship in 2006, lacking many of the cool new features Microsoft had hoped to include. By then, Windows is expected to be squaring off against its toughest challenge to date, from Linux...
...there's another new version taking shape? As Gates is fond of saying, "Our biggest competitor is our installed base." Now the Longhorn team has been told to scale back its ambitious plans for the new operating system in order to make sure it will work with the average PC...
...University senior leadership decided that the University should, from an administrative perspective, standardize on one PC vendor to leverage the University’s volume to get better, more competitive pricing,” Silva said...
...desktop acts when you point and click at folders and files, wireless Net connectivity, flat-panel displays and DVD burners--these are just some of the things that Jobs was the first to get right for a mass market. He baked them into his Macs, which forced the PC world to follow along. What's next? Jobs will say only, "What drives us is delighting customers." He's definitely right about that. --BY JOSH QUITTNER, editor, Business...
...wouldn't want to spend six weeks in a Mediterranean paradise--even if it's virtual? That's how long it can take even an experienced gamer to get through the adventure PC game A Quiet Weekend in Capri ($29.99). The game is composed of more than 4,500 pictures that put players through their paces in the southern Italian retreat of Capri as they try to unravel a mystery with the help of strange tools invented by an eccentric island scientist. You can play Capri as a game, but you can also use it for virtual sightseeing. --By Jennifer...